So........what now?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

Republicans failed to stop ACA dead in its tracks during the past 3 years- in Congress, at SCOTUS, or the WH- and not even a government shutdown that they engineered in the House was successful in stopping the Oct. 1 rollout of the ACA Exchanges. So, now what? Based on some comments made by House members, it's not clear that they even have a Plan D, E, F, etc. and seem to just be operating on inertia at this point. There does not seem to me to be any way- absent a huge public backlash against ACA- that they can even halfway reasonably continue to demand that we pull the plug on the Exchanges now and acquiesce to a repeal, defund, or delay of ACA. Certainly not when millions of people are evidently interested in the Exchanges and looking at their options, especially not without a suitable replacement plan waiting in the wings, which we all know the Republicans are neither ready nor willing to offer in any way, shape or form. They have placed themselves in a box from which neither they (nor we) can easily escape from.

[wandy]

1. Try to think of the ACA as a GOP co. test balloon......

If they can win this battle, at any cost, they have broken our form of government and go on to take other hostages.
One can only guess at what will be demanded in the next blackmail note.

[mnhtnbb]

2. I agree. This is not just about the ACA. This is about a small band of zealots seizing power

beyond what is granted to them by the Constitution as members of the House of Representatives .

I hope that POTUS is thinking about this in terms of a coup--because that is really what it is.

[Petroleum V. Nasby]

3. Yes, I agree this is a dangerous threat to either party, not to mention the country.

I wouldn't support this behavior from Democrats either. The Republicans may as well have demanded Obama's resignation as a condition for funding the government. If the Dems cave to this, our government is hosed. What I'm afraid of is that these Tea Party idiots are literally too stupid to see what they are doing to this country with this little stunt. They could end up costing us billions before Wall Street steps in and takes the keys away. I think they are that stupid.

[SmittynMo]

4. Stupid is an understatement

[Filibuster Harry]

5. Agree with all. Can you imagine if the democrats did this any time during Bush's term?

How do you think the right wing media would rhave reported that? This is not governing and I do believe the tea baggers are that stupid. But doesn't this show you what kind of balls the other Rs have. They are all afraid of being primaried? Dems must not cave in to this even if it risks the debt ceiling. If you give in then the Rs will continue this extortion tactic on anything. The Dems must hold strong on this -- this all stems because the Rs thought they were going to take the senate and white house but were denied.
Again, I have to mention -- no Rs or any american would want our president to negotiate with any foreign leader if that foreign leader had as a demand that we (the US) completely get rid of our nuclear weapons.